The original is the Krampus. But I really don’t care, if you scratch of the veneer of any tradition, most of the time you’ll find that it isn’t really that old, and has changed quite a lot in the years. At least in my area there are a lot of these “traditions” that weren’t around when I was a kid in the 1970’s an 80’s, and they all amount to some degree to people wanting to be antisocial.
The original is the Krampus. But I really don’t care, if you scratch of the veneer of any tradition, most of the time you’ll find that it isn’t really that old, and has changed quite a lot in the years. At least in my area there are a lot of these “traditions” that weren’t around when I was a kid in the 1970’s an 80’s, and they all amount to some degree to people wanting to be antisocial.